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Alastor's ear twitched once once mode as he raised his head up.
“Alastor, are you sure you're okay?” Charlie frowned a bit. “You keep getting distracted.”
He was in a meeting with Vaggie and Charlie about how to handle the sudden burst of popularity for the hotel, but something was amiss. Something was tugging on his radio waves and Alastor only knew one demon who could do that.
“Where is Vox?” Alastor asked instead, his fluffy ear twitching once more as he turned to stare at Vaggie and Charlie.
Vaggie and Charlie exchanged a worried glance. “Uh… we don't know?” Vaggie offered. “Why? Vox is probably fine, Alastor.” Vox has confided in them once about Alastor's anxiety, so they knew to treat his worries with a bit more grace than they usually would, but even this felt different.
“He’s… unhappy.” Alastor got up abruptly. He walked towards one of the many windows and pressed his palms against the sils. “Very… unhappy.” Alastor narrowed his eyes as he tried to reach back out to Vox.
Dead air. Vox wasn't responding. Alastor straightened abruptly and turned his head a hundred and eighty degrees. “Ladies, I do apologize, but Vox appears to be ignoring me now after reaching out to me. If you don't mind, I'm going to stop by his workplace and see what I did to make him mad as I do not wish to sleep on the couch.” Before Vaggie or Charlie could respond, the shadows swallowed Alastor whole, taking him directly into Vox’s office where the scent of blood was very strong. Blood and the scent of another buck. Alastor’s lip twitched as he could recognize the scent of a competitor. Someone trying to claim a doe for themselves. Rut season was right around the corner, but it didn't make any sense. Vox wasn't even a mammal sinner. He was part machine, part human, and part shark. Why would another buck be interested in Vox? The aggression checked. Bucks could get very violent for rut season, but rut hasn't even started yet! They had one more week, hence why Alastor’s schedule was overflowing with things he needed to handle.
Alastor breathed in the scent very carefully and began to follow it, Vox’s blood and the competitor’s scent led right to one of the windows, which were broken. Alastor’s eye twitched once more before he carefully climbed out the window. The scent was slowly getting stronger and stronger, but it was clear whoever had Vox was moving at twice the pace Alastor was. Sinner regarded Alastor with a worried glance, there was no secret that Vox and Alastor were dating and many sinners had probably seen Vox get carried off. Vox hasn't been able to properly discharge his power since he underwent an update to try and limit it; something Alastor was definitely going to make him undo after this fiasco.
Alastor walked confidently and soon arrived at an old, rotten, abandoned apartment building just on the outskirts of town. He could smell more blood and he grinned knowingly. It appears Vox had woken up and was rather frustrated with his sudden capture.
Alastor shoved down the rotten door and watched in mild amusement as it crumbled against the floor. He continued to follow his mate’s scent. He was led right to a door which he kicked down, his antlers already growing and his eyes flickered to dials, but shock washed over his face as he watched in horror as his father gagged Vox.
Vox clearly was still a bit out of it, but he kept looking back and forth between the two. Alastor, a red deer, while this buck was a whitetail deer.
Alastor watched as his father released his grip on Vox and pulled his hands away from him. “I don't want to hurt your boy toy.” He sneered. “I just wanted to talk to you, but you've proven to be rather difficult to reach out to, but your boyfriend here is always accepting meetings. Very easy to catch him off guard when that major update just happened.”
Alastor casted a glance towards Vox and was pleased to see that he already fried the gag in his mouth and was glaring at his partner’s father. Alastor could also tell that Vox was already working on his restraints so he just needed to distract his father.
“I had no interest in talking to you.” Alastor’s ears flattened as he spoke. “Did you really think that kidnapping my partner was the correct choice to get on my good side?”
“Oh, Allie.” Elijah sneered. “I didn't want to be in your good graces. We're both in Hell, son. We both know how this is going to end. You killed me. Your own father.”
Vox's eyes widened a bit. It seemed to have finally clicked in Vox's mind what was happening.
“Hunted me down like prey.” Elijah spat. “Now I live all my eternity as a stupid fucking deer because of how you killed me.”
“Be glad I've given deer such a good representation down here.” Alastor snarled back. “I didn't want to see you, or talk to you. You hit my mother. You abused her and made her miserable. You're lucky that hunting you was all I did to you. I knew you were in Hell, and I went out of my way to avoid you.” Alastor moved slowly towards Vox. “Yet you come and threaten my partner.”
Elijah's ears flattened. His antlers were easily twice the size of Alastor's, and he was bigger. Obviously more mature and older when he died, but Vox could see that one of them was broken. He lost a fight.
“This isn't how I wanted to meet your parents.” Vox hissed at Alastor. “This seems a little excessive.”
“I didn't want you to meet my father in the first place.” Alastor growled back.
“Your boyfriend must think he's so funny.” Elijah scoffed a bit. “Big talk for someone who is always so weak. The only reason you're not dead is because of Alastor. Because my son decided you were wlrth something.”
“I don't think he likes me.” Vox looked towards Alastor. “Which is rather rude because I think I'm pretty great.”
The glare Alastor sent him was enough to make him bow his head.
“Vox is much more powerful than the both of us combined.” Alastor turned to glare at his father. “You should feel honoured that he didn't fry you to a crisp for touching him.”
“I suppose royals are always strong.” Elijah spat right onto Vox's screen. “I always knew you were a faggot.” He added with a scowl. “No man likes cooking.”
“What do you want?” Alastor moved once again to stand in front of Vox, to hide his fight against the restraints that were slowly becoming undone.
“I just wanted to see my boy again.” Elijah stepped closer. “See if the rumours were true.” He was face to face with the shorter man. “Maybe… give you a taste of your medicine.” Elijah pulled a knife from his side pocket, but Vox was much faster. He grasped Elijah’s wrist and sent a bolt of electricity through the man, burning him alive with his powers. Vox wrapped an arm around Alastor’s waist and pulled his partner in close as he stood up. Vox let go of Elijah’s wrist and watched as the man slumped down to the ground, dazed.
“Your dad fucking sucks.” Vox scoffed. “He had the audacity to stab me in one of the bites you gave me.” Vox held up his arm a bit sad as the blood continued to slowly seep out of the injury.
“I can give you another one?” Alastor suggested with the tilt of his head.
“Maybe later.” Vox sighed as he dropped his arm back down to his side. “What an asshole.” Vox added with a scoff. “Fucking bitch.”
“I didn't even recognize his scent at first.” Alastor laughed coldly. “I thought he was a competitor.”
“Pft. That’s funny.” Vox chuckled as he flexed his hand, sparks coming from his hand. “I don't like this update.” He hummed.
“Me neither. Undo it.” Alastor scowled.
“Yes, Sir!” Vox saluted a bit as he bowed.